{"id":36970,"date":"2018-03-06T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=36970"},"modified":"2018-03-13T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T20:47:15","slug":"this-day-in-history-the-alamo-was-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=36970","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History : The Alamo was Defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>March 06<\/h2>\n<p>1836<br \/>\nThe Alamo fell to Mexican forces.<\/p>\n<p>1857<br \/>\nThe Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not citizens.<\/p>\n<p>1930<br \/>\nClarence Birdseye started to sell prepackaged frozen food for the first time, in Springfield, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>1957<br \/>\nThe former British colonies of Togoland and the Gold Coast united to form independent Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>1981<br \/>\nWalter Cronkite, &#8220;the most trusted man in America,&#8221; retired from the CBS Evening News and was replaced by Dan Rather.<\/p>\n<p>1997<br \/>\nQueen Elizabeth II launched the first royal website.<\/p>\n<p>1836<br \/>\nThe Alamo fell to Mexican forces.<\/p>\n<p>1857<br \/>\nThe Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not citizens.<\/p>\n<p>1930<br \/>\nClarence Birdseye started to sell prepackaged frozen food for the first time, in Springfield, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>1957<br \/>\nThe former British colonies of Togoland and the Gold Coast united to form independent Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>1981<br \/>\nWalter Cronkite, &#8220;the most trusted man in America,&#8221; retired from the CBS Evening News and was replaced by Dan Rather.<\/p>\n<p>1997<br \/>\nQueen Elizabeth II launched the first royal website.<\/p>\n<h2>Birthdays<\/h2>\n<p>Michelangelo Buonarroti<br \/>\n1475\u20131564, Italian Artist<br \/>\nItalian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, born in Caprese, Tuscany.<\/p>\n<p>Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac<br \/>\npoet (1619)<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Barrett Browning<br \/>\npoet (1806)<\/p>\n<p>Lou Costello<br \/>\ncomedian, actor (1906)<\/p>\n<p>Alan Greenspan<br \/>\nchairman of the Federal Reserve (1926)<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br \/>\nwriter (1928)<\/p>\n<p>Rob Reiner<br \/>\nactor, director, producer (1947)<\/p>\n<p>Shaquille O&#8217;Neal<br \/>\nbasketball player (1972)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 06 1836 The Alamo fell to Mexican forces. 1857 The Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not citizens. 1930&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[69,106,1495,290,6131],"class_list":["post-36970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tigermedianet","tag-tmn","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36970"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36978,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36970\/revisions\/36978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}